Suffragettes1

Women Right's Movement

By AceGamer

  • The World Anti-Slavery Convention

    The World Anti-Slavery Convention
    1840 - The World Anti-Slavery Convention is held in London. Abolitionists Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton attend, but they are barred from participating in the meeting. This snub leads them to decide to hold a women's rights convention when they return to America.

  • Women's Rights Convention

    Women's Rights Convention
    1848 -Three hundred people attend the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Among the attendees are Amelia Bloomer, Charlotte Woodward, and Frederick Douglas. Lucretia Mott's husband James presides. Stanton authors the Declaration of Sentiments, which sets the agenda for decades of women's activism. A larger meeting follows in Rochester.

  • The Civil War

    The Civil War
    1861-1865 - The Civil War. Suffrage efforts nearly come to a complete halt as women put their enfranchisement aside and pitch in for the war effort.

  • Fifteenth Amendment Ratification

    Fifteenth Amendment Ratification
    1870 - The Fifteenth Amendment is ratified. Although its gender-neutral language appears to grant women the vote, women who go to the polls to test the amendment are turned away

  • Susan B. Anthony's Arrest for Voting

    Susan B. Anthony's Arrest for Voting
    1872 - Susan B. Anthony is arrested in Rochester N.Y. for illegal voting. Anthony refused to pay her streetcar fare to the police station because she was "traveling under protest at the government's expense."

  • The National American Woman Suffrage Association

    The National American Woman Suffrage Association
    1890 - The National and American associations merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Stanton becomes the new organization's first president.

  • NAWSA Suffrage Parade

    NAWSA Suffrage Parade
    1913 - Suffragist Alice Paul organizes 8,000 women for a parade through Washington.
    She becomes the leader of the Congressional Union (CU), a militant branch of the National American association.

  • Nineteenth Amendment Fails

    Nineteenth Amendment Fails
    1918 - President Wilson issues a statement supporting a federal amendment to grant woman's suffrage. President Wilson addresses the Senate in support of the Nineteenth Amendment, but it fails to win the required 2/3 majority of Senate votes.

  • Nineteenth Amendment Passed

    Nineteenth Amendment Passed
    1919 - For a third time, the House votes to enfranchise women. The Senate finally passes the Nineteenth Amendment, and suffragists begin their ratification campaign.

  • Nineteenth Amendment Ratified

    Nineteenth Amendment Ratified
    1920 - Despite the political subversion of anti-suffragists, particularly in Tennessee, three quarters of state legislatures ratify the Nineteenth Amendment on 20 August. American women win full voting rights.